GYP definition

See also

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GYP_(software )

Wikipedia definition

GYP (generate your projects) is a build automation tool.

GYP was created by Google to generate native IDE project files (such as Visual Studio Code and Xcode) for building the Chromium web browser and is licensed as open source software using the BSD software license.

The functionality of GYP is similar to the CMake build tool.

GYP processes a file that contains a JSON dictionary in order to generate one or more target project make files. The single source .GYP file is generic while the target files are specific to each targeted build tool.

Software projects being built using GYP include the V8 Javascript engine, Google’s Chromium web browser, Dart, Node.js, WebRTC, and Telegram.

In 2016 the Chromium project replaced GYP with GN

GYP definition

See also

• https://gyp.gsrc.io/

GYP is a Meta-Build system: a build system that generates other build systems.

GYP is intended to support large projects that need to be built on multiple platforms (e.g., Mac, Windows, Linux), and where it is important that the project can be built using the IDEs that are popular on each platform as if the project is a “native” one.

It can be used to generate XCode projects, Visual Studio projects, Ninja build files, and Makefiles.

In each case GYP’s goal is to replicate as closely as possible the way one would set up a native build of the project using the IDE.

GYP can also be used to generate “hybrid” projects that provide the IDE scaffolding for a nice user experience but call out to Ninja to do the actual building (which is usually much faster than the native build systems of the IDEs).